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Title: QoS with NNTP (Usenet)
Post by: mclearn on May 01, 2009, 10:05:30 AM

Is it possible to give NNTP traffic a lower priority than say, web traffic?  Or is QoS related to upstream only?  My problem is that NNTP, when it is running, takes up ALL of my downstream and is reluctant to share.  If I download something from the web it will go at about 50kBps, while my usenet stays at 1.1 MBps, for example.  I made port 80 priority 1 on all local IPs, but this doesn't seem to do anything.

Title: Re: QoS with NNTP (Usenet)
Post by: lotacus on May 01, 2009, 10:33:03 AM

Correct. What your looking for is bandwidthr throttling. There are some nice open source linux distro's dedicated for that purpose, smoothwall to mention one. Also you may want to look into the advanced firewall rules that is included with windows vista SP2 I believe/group policy, which has a vast amount of settings in place to throttle bandwidth by port, IP, Mac, and by application. Hopefully I'm not getting it confused with Windows 7, but its very handy.

Title: Re: QoS with NNTP (Usenet)
Post by: mclearn on May 01, 2009, 11:43:01 AM

Thanks!  I'll play around with the Windows 7 firewall